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Sir Edward Carson, and they had a happy talk on 
the Terrace. ‘If all Irishmen were like Duffy,” said 
Carson, at its close, ‘I would gladly consent to Home 
Rule for Ireland.”” Might not Sir Edward Carson 
extend to Mr. Redmond the confidence he was willing 
to repose in the Irish rebel, Sir Gavan Duffy? It is 
at least encouraging to read that the two leaders now 
occasionally meet in friendly converse in the Lobbies 
of the House of Commons. 
The financial provisions of the existing Home Rule 
Bill are generally admitted to be defective, but if 
Mr. Redmond and Sir Edward Carson joined hands 
they would have no difficulty in securing generous 
financial provision for Ireland : almost any form of 
Home Rule to which they both assented would be 
passed without opposition. 
The alternative is disaster for both countries. 
Sedition spreads in Ireland while unthinking Union- 
ists rejoice in the belief that the power of the Irish 
Parliamentary Party is undermined. It was the 
same fatuity that inspired the Unionist exhortation 
to the National Volunteers, when they were first 
being enrolled, to repudiate the control of "Mr. 
Redmond in favour of Sir Roger Casement. 
Quite recently Lord Midleton exultingly declared 
that at the next election in Ireland every member of 
the Irish Party would be rejected by his constituency. 
The prophecy was absurd ; but assume it to be true : 
for every repudiated member of the Irish Party a 
Sinn Feiner would be returned. Is this a prospect 
to which England or Ireland, Unionist or Home 
Ruler, can look forward with satisfaction ? i 
The Unionist Press has been beating the air in its 
daily appeals to Mr. Redmond and the Irish Party to 
revive recruiting in Ireland or to accept conscription. 
It is about time they addressed their appeal to their 
own Party with whom the remedy lies. The Ulster 
Unionists have consented to Home Rule for over